"songs employ a piano as the major instrument, have similar prelude chords and an eight-beat introduction, and they run at almost exactly the same tempo. Let It Go (Disney song) ""Let It Go"" is a song from Disney's 2013 animated feature film ""Frozen"", whose music and lyrics were composed by husband-and-wife songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. The song was performed in its original show-tune version in the film by American actress and singer Idina Menzel in her vocal role as Queen Elsa. Anderson-Lopez and Lopez also composed a simplified pop version (with shorter lyrics and background chorus) which"
"song also includes discarding items, most notably her gloves, which her parents gave her to hold back her powers, and taking her tiara off her head and throwing it over her shoulder, afterwards unraveling her braided hairstyle. ""Let It Go"" reached the top five on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, and won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2014 and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media in 2015. The song gained international recognition, becoming one of the most globally recorded Disney songs, with numerous covers being recorded in different languages. According to the"
"Frozen (soundtrack) Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 2013 Disney animated film, ""Frozen"". The soundtrack features 10 original songs written and composed by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and 22 score pieces composed by Christophe Beck. It features the critically acclaimed song ""Let It Go""—film version performed by Idina Menzel; single version performed by Demi Lovato—which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Song, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Two editions"
"of having a ""special sibling."" ""Let It Go"" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards, where a shortened rendition of the show-tune version was performed live by Menzel; with the award, Robert Lopez became the 12th person, and by far the quickest (10 years), to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. The decision to release a single for ""Let It Go"" was made after the song was written and was presented to Disney. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez selected American singer and former Disney Channel star Demi Lovato, who also appears on Disney's"
"become the youngest person to have achieved an EGOT. Frozen (soundtrack) Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 2013 Disney animated film, ""Frozen"". The soundtrack features 10 original songs written and composed by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and 22 score pieces composed by Christophe Beck. It features the critically acclaimed song ""Let It Go""—film version performed by Idina Menzel; single version performed by Demi Lovato—which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Song, and was nominated for the"
"It was also pointed out that 55% of audiences identified ""Let It Go"" as their favorite song, while ""Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"" and ""For the First Time in Forever"" held proportions of 21% and 9%, respectively. ""Frozen"" was named the seventh-best film of 2013 by Richard Corliss of ""Time"" and Kyle Smith of the ""New York Post"". Alonso Duralde of ""TheWrap"" wrote that the film is ""the best animated musical to come out of Disney since the tragic death of lyricist Howard Ashman, whose work on ""The Little Mermaid"" and ""Beauty and the Beast"" helped build the"
"placed the song at number 11 on their ranking of ""The Top 12 Disney Songs Of All Time"", joking, ""Singing to a fork has never been so memorable"". ""Part of Your World"" is also considered one of Disney's best ""I Want"" songs, credited with initiating a trend of Disney heroines singing about wanting more out of their lives. On MTV's ranking of ""Disney's 'I Want' Songs from Worst to Best"", ""Part of Your World"" was placed first. Space.ca agreed with MTV's ranking, at the same time crediting it with the success of “Let It Go”, a popular ""I Want"" song"
"the one night only Radio City concert, Menzel announced a week after the release of her holiday album that she will embark on her very first . Spearheaded by the unprecedented critical and commercial success of Disney's animated film ""Frozen"" (2013), in which Menzel stars as Elsa and performs the film's Academy Award-winning song ""Let it Go"", the singer and actress ultimately achieved ""international stardom."" Additionally, Menzel, deemed the magazine's ""(Not So) New 'It' Girl"", appeared on the cover of ""Billboard ""on March 29, 2014, which was soon followed by an appearance on the cover of the April 22, 2014"
"the best-selling film of the year in the United States. By January 2015, ""Frozen"" had become the all-time best-selling Blu-ray Disc in the United States. ""Frozen"" won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (""Let It Go""), the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, five Annie Awards (including Best Animated Feature), two Grammy Awards for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Song Written for Visual Media (""Let It Go""), and two Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (""Let It"
"tells him to put his chicken head back on and join the Brewster Roosters to celebrate their only win of the year. Co-stars of the movie, Mitchel Musso and Tiffany Thornton, recorded a song together called ""Let It Go"" for the movie. The song is used during a parade sequence in the movie and gained significant airplay when it was released to Radio Disney on March 20, 2009. It peaked at number 6 on the station. An accompanying music video was filmed and was released on Disney Channel on March 28, 2009. The song is featured on the Disney compilation"
"of the Disney song ""Let It Go"", starring Lexi Walker and Alex Boyé. Their video received 1 million views in one day, 18 million in 10 days, and over 60 million by July 2015. They were invited to compete in the ninth season of ""America's Got Talent"" in 2014 and reached the quarterfinals. Brigham Young University student Masa Fukuda heard about a contest for nearby composers to write music for sale as soundtracks during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. He and Jeannine Lasky wrote the song ""It Just Takes Love"" on an impulse, not expecting to"
"the world,"" then showed the entire multi-language video clip of ""Let It Go"" to the assembled shareholders. On March 31, 2014, an in-studio multi-language video of the song was released, showing singers of 25 different languages recording their versions of ""Let It Go"". On April 15, 2014 a studio recording of the multi-language version was released via digital download. In 2015, a Hindi and an Indonesian version of the movie were aired on Disney Channel. The Indonesian version features a translated pop version of ""Let It Go"", sung by the ensemble of Indonesian singers Anggun, , , Nowela and ."
"keeps going."" ""Frozen"" opened to positive reviews, with several critics comparing it favorably to the films of the Disney Renaissance, particularly ""The Little Mermaid"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""Aladdin"", and ""The Lion King"". Some journalists felt that the film's success marked a second Disney Renaissance. The film was praised for its visuals, themes, musical numbers, screenplay, and vocal performances, especially those of Bell, Menzel, and Gad. The ""Let It Go"" musical sequence was also particularly praised by critics. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 233 reviews, with"
"on Nick Jr and ""Bear in the Big Blue House"" on the Disney Channel. Anderson-Lopez, along with her husband Robert Lopez and Henry Jackman, wrote and produced music for the 2011 Disney film ""Winnie the Pooh"", for which they were nominated for an Annie Award for Best Music in a Feature Production. She also provided the voice of Kanga in the film. Her work with her husband writing songs for the 2013 Disney film ""Frozen"", including ""Let It Go"", won her an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards and two Grammy Awards at the 57th"
"The pop version was released as leading single of . On April 15, 2014, Walt Disney Records released a compilation album titled ""Let It Go: The Complete Set"", with all 42 foreign-language film versions of ""Let It Go"" and nine end credit versions. In South Korea, the pop version of the song by Hyolyn reached number six on the Gaon Music Chart in February, followed by the film version performed by charting at number 80 in March. The Japanese versions of the song, performed in the film by Takako Matsu and in the end roll by May J., reached number"
"a character just kind of malevolently looks at you and slams a door in your face,"" although in the final version, Elsa's facial expression ended up as more of a ""sly smile"". According to Lopez, it was the last line at the end, ""the cold never bothered me anyway,"" that was ""our little Avril Lavigne line"". On December 6, 2013, Walt Disney Animation Studios released a video of the entire ""Let It Go"" sequence as seen in the movie, which has over 630 million views on YouTube. On January 30, 2014, a sing-along version of the sequence was released and"
"Forever"", ""Love Is an Open Door"", ""Let It Go"", ""Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People"", ""In Summer"", and ""Fixer Upper"" (all featured in ""Frozen""), and ""Making Today a Perfect Day"" (featured in ""Frozen Fever"") and ""Ring in the Season"", ""The Ballad of Flemmingrad"", ""That Time of Year"" and ""When We're Together"" (all featured in ""Olaf's Frozen Adventure""). The ""Frozen"" soundtrack was also very successful becoming the best-selling album of 2014 with over 10 million copies sold and ""Let It Go"", becoming the fifth best-selling single of 2014 . A radio program titled Frozen Radio is another format used to provide ""Frozen"""
"2014. A soundtrack featuring only the first ten tracks was released under the name ""Frozen: The Songs"" At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, the ""Frozen"" soundtrack was nominated in two categories – Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (with credits going to Christophe Beck as composer) – and won the former; the song ""Let It Go"" won the award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, with credits going to Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez as songwriters and Idina Menzel as performer. The Academy Award for ""Let It Go"" led Robert Lopez to"
"Tour"" (including a Canadian leg) on September 29, 2013, which began February 9, 2014 and ended May 17. On October 21, she released ""Let It Go"" for the Disney film ""Frozen"", which was released in theaters on November 27, and the song was promoted as the single for the film's soundtrack. The song peaked in the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart at number 38, spending twenty weeks on the chart. On May 18, 2014, ""Somebody to You"" featuring Lovato was released as the fourth single from The Vamps' debut album, ""Meet the Vamps"". On May 29, she announced her fourth"
"of both covers were filmed in the ice castles in Midway, Utah. In March 2014, Brian Hull recorded a cover of the song while impersonating various Disney characters such as Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Goofy. French deathcore/metalcore band Betraying the Martyrs covered ""Let It Go"", as a single from their album ""Phantom"" in July 2014. Norwegian YouTube singer Per Fredrik Pellek Asly or ""PelleK"", covered a power metal version of the Lovato version of the song on December 16, 2013, collecting more than 4 million views. In February 2014, a parody YouTuber by the name"
"only officially released alongside the 2015 film ""Cinderella"", the audio was released online on March 12. The lyrics was posted by the official Disney blog on March 13, and the lyric video was released online on March 20. The song is heavily advertised on the front cover of the ""Cinderella"" soundtrack CD. The song was also sung on ""Disney Channel""’s show ""Best Friends Whenever"". The song has received mixed to positive reviews. Though deemed a lesser effort than ""Let It Go"", it is still praised as being a competent catchy piece that adequately furthers the narrative of the short. ""USA"
"of the soundtrack were released by Walt Disney Records on November 25, 2013: a single-disc regular edition, and a two-disc digipak deluxe edition, containing original demo recordings of songs and score compositions, unused outtake recordings, and instrumental versions of the film's main songs. On October 21, 2013, the soundtrack's lead single, Lovato's cover of ""Let It Go"" was released. Subsequent releases have been accompanied by foreign language translations of ""Let It Go"". The album debuted at number 18 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart. The soundtrack has topped the ""Billboard"" album chart for thirteen non-consecutive weeks, and has sold 4 million"
"defiant paean to self-reliance, could play comfortably beside camp showtune anthems such as ""I Am What I Am"" and ""Don't Rain on My Parade"". The opening and closing choruses of Let It Go end with a sly, spat-out refrain: 'The cold never bothered me anyway!' You go, girl."" Nasim Asl of ""The Oxford Student"" continued, ""Menzel, especially, steals the show with her performance of 'Let It Go'. Her ""Wicked""-esque belting out works perfectly with such an incredible animated sequence—the building of the ice castle really demonstrates the prowess of Disney animation, and results in, arguably, one of the most spectacular"
"third Tony Award nomination. Additionally, Menzel is known for portraying the role of Shelby Corcoran on the musical dramedy TV series ""Glee"" from 2010 to 2013 and Nancy Tremaine in the 2007 Disney live action/animated film ""Enchanted"". She also voiced Queen Elsa in Walt Disney Animation Studios' hit 2013 3D computer-animated musical film ""Frozen"", in which she sang the Oscar- and Grammy Award-winning song ""Let It Go"". The song reached number 5 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, making Menzel the first Tony Award-winning actress to reach the top 10. She won a Grammy award for the film's soundtrack. Her"
"the lyrics off-by-heart. Kat Brown of ""The Daily Telegraph"" referred to the short film as a ""musical video"", due to such a large proportion of it being taken up by this song. ""Us Weekly"" negatively compared its catchiness to ""Let It Go"", though described the ditty as ""fresh"", ""bright"", and ""fun"". In a negative review, ""Slate"" felt that ""the song itself, while hummable, is fatally damaged by its need to do too much."" Making Today a Perfect Day ""Making Today a Perfect Day"" is a song from the 2015 Walt Disney Animation Studios computer-animated short film ""Frozen Fever"", with music"
"Wall,"" for an episode of the same name. Lopez composed a song for ""The Simpsons"" episode ""A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again"" titled ""Enjoy It While You Can"" which aired on April 29, 2012. Lopez and his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez also wrote seven songs for ""Winnie the Pooh"", released in 2011 by Walt Disney Animation Studios. They also wrote an original song for ""Wreck-It Ralph"" before it was cut out. In 2013, Lopez and Anderson-Lopez wrote songs for Disney Animation's feature film ""Frozen"". The song ""Let It Go"" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song,"
"all celebrated for different reasons, but a 2013 film would have a ""2013 point of view"". Demi Lovato, Idina Menzel, Walt Disney Animation Studios and others involved with the song ""Let it Go"" are currently being sued by musical artist Jaime Ciero over whether or not the song is a rip-off of his 2008 single ""Volar."" In May 2018 it was ruled in court that the original songwriters, Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, would be released from the lawsuit due to the 3 year statue of limitations for copyright claims. Because each replay or new performance of the song restarts"
"million units in the first half of 2014 with nearly 2.7 million units. The song ""Let It Go"" performed by Idina Menzel also finished at #5 on the digital song chart with 2.8 million copies sold in the first six months of 2014. The soundtrack reached its 3 million sales mark in the US in July 2014. Nearly half these were digital sales, making the album the best-selling soundtrack in digital history. ""Frozen"" was ""Billboard"" Year-End number one album of 2014, becoming the sixth soundtrack in history and the first soundtrack to earn this position since """", as well as"
"""Let It Go"" single cover was taken from that shoot. Other songs filmed that day were ""High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night)"" and ""Bringin' On the Heartbreak"". “Let It Go” is the second most-played song from ""High'n'Dry"" after “Bringing' On the Heartbreak”. The song was played consistently on the tours supporting its parent album, ""Pyromania"" and ""Hysteria"", but was then discarded completely until 1999. However since then “Let It Go” has been quite frequently reintroduced into setlists. Let It Go (Def Leppard song) ""Let it Go"" is a 1981 song by British rock band Def Leppard from their multi-platinum album ""High"
"""I Dreamed a Dream"" from ""Les Misérables"" and ""Poker Face"" originally by Lady Gaga. Menzel returned to ""Glee"" in season 3 episode ""I Am Unicorn"", her role this time as a teacher causing trouble for Rachel, Quinn, Puck, and former flame Will Schuster. In 2013, Menzel starred as Elsa in the animated musical film ""Frozen"". Menzel's performance received praise from film critics. The film became the highest grossing animated film of all time, and one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Menzel gained particular notice for her song ""Let It Go"", which won an Academy Award and a Grammy"
"ranked second. Other popular songs included ""Take Me or Leave Me"" from ""Rent"", ""The Wizard and I"" from ""Wicked ""and ""Always Starting Over"""" ""from ""If/Then"", which garnered seven percent each. Menzel performs a diverse selection of songs from her Broadway career (including hits from Wicked, Rent, and If/Then), along with original songs from some of her various solo albums, Pop and Rock covers, and a much anticipated performance of her Oscar-winning song ""Let It Go"" from Disney's Frozen. Throughout the concert, Menzel interacts with the audience sharing stories from her early younger years in Long Island, NY and reenacting her"
"""Let It Go"" at the 86th Academy Awards in March 2014, where the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. When John Travolta announced her before she sang the song, he incorrectly introduced her as 'Adele Dazeem'. The slip-up became a popular Internet meme. On June 17, 2014, during a concert at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, Menzel confirmed she was working on a Christmas album that would contain original material to be released later that same year. In that concert, she performed one of the original tunes from the album, ""December Prayer"". Her fourth studio"
"show ""World of Color"", which showcases scenes from Disney films. Disneyland Paris' nighttime spectacular, ""Disney Dreams!"", also added Elsa's performance of ""Let It Go"" to their attractions, and she was given a similar role during the Magic Kingdom show, ""Celebrate the Magic"", with her singing interspersed with scenes from the movie. On May 16, 2014, it was announced that Disneyland would debut a ""Frozen"" pre-parade featuring Elsa, Anna and Olaf. It premiered June 13, 2014, and preceded performances of Mickey's Soundsational Parade. From July 5 to September 1, 2014, as part of ""'Frozen' Summer Fun"" show at Disney's Hollywood Studios,"